Grace Institute: The Gospels & Acts: Mark: Bibliography

Mark Survey of the New Testament: The Gospels & Acts Winter 2005

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Bibliography

Blomberg, Craig L. Jesus and the Gospels. Nashville TN: Broadman & Holman. 1997.

E usebius Pamphilius. “Church History.” From A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers . Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, translator. Grand Rapids MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1890. Available on-line at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.i.html.

Grassmick, John D. “Matthew.” Bible Knowledge Commentary . John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck, ed. Victor Books, 1997. Electronic Edition STEP file.

Guelich, R.A. “Matthew, Gospel of” Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels . Joel B. Green, Scott McKnight ed. Downers Grove IL: Intervarsity Press, 1998. Electronic edition STEP file.

Gundry, Robert H. A Survey of the New Testament. Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan. 2003.

Kim, Stephen S.. Classroom notes from “Gospels, Hebrews-Revelation.” Multnomah Biblical Seminary, Spring 2003.

Taylor, Rick. From a lecture on the book of Mark given at the Grace Institute , October 9, 1997.

Walter W. Wessel. “Mark.” The Expositor's Bible Commentary . Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. Electronic edition STEP file.

Primary Sources

Eusebius, in his Church History quotes Papias, who in turn quotes someone known as the “elder” who states:

Mark, having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately, though not in order, whatsoever he remembered of the things said or done by Christ. For he neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but afterward, as I said, he followed Peter, who adapted his teaching to the needs of his hearers, but with no intention of giving a connected account of the Lord's discourses, so that Mark committed no error while he thus wrote some things as he remembered them. For he was careful of one thing, not to omit any of the things which he had heard, and not to state any of them falsely.

Eusebius, from his church history also states:

So greatly did the splendor of piety illumine the minds of Peter's hearers that they were not satisfied with hearing once only, and were not content with the unwritten teaching of the divine Gospel, but with all sorts of entreaties they besought Mark, a follower of Peter, and the one whose Gospel is extant, that he would leave them a written monument of the doctrine which had been orally communicated to them. Nor did they cease until they had prevailed with the man, and had thus become the occasion of the written Gospel which bears the name of Mark.

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